IRELAND
Herald
By Cormac Murphy
Thursday May 03 2012
CARDINAL Sean Brady has insisted he had not been fully aware of the impact of child abuse, even though he heard harrowing victim statements.
The pressure on the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland to resign intensified today in the wake of revelations of his failure to shield children from paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth.
The priest defended not contacting gardai about the horrific details he heard from victim Brendan Boland and admitted he didn’t realise the impact abuse had on children.
He said: “I knew chapter and verse of what was going on. I didn’t have the awareness I now have of the impact that behaviour was having on those children.”
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